Heat-insulator.



H. MOGK. v HEAT INSULATOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1905.

903,878. Y y Patented N0v.17,1908.

HUGO MooK, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IIEA'IJNSULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application led May 11, 1905. Serial No, 260,061.

To all whom it .may concern:

Be it, known that I, HUGO Mook, a citizen of the .United States, residing' at New York, in the county of New York and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inA Heat- Insulators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. l

This invention relates to improvements in heat insulators, and contemplates the provisions of means for delecting heat rays comy bined with a heat non-conducting medium.

"The invention contemplates certain other novel features hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings F igure l represents a longitudinal vertical section through the heating insulator combining the features of the present invention, Fig. 2 represents a nwdiiied embodiment of the same, Fig. 3 represents a further embodiment thereof.

It will generally be found to be the case that any medium which is not a 'conductor of heat, will not serve as a baille against radiation, and any medium which will serve to deflect radiating heat, will be found to be a good heat conductor. Therefore, to obtain the best results in the insulating of heat, I propose to employ a combination of the media mentioned, ,so that While one deilects radiating heat, the otherwill serve to prevent heat conduction.

In carrying out this invention, as an example, I propose to employ as a nonconducting medium, a vacuum, and asa non-radiating medium, any suitable metallic plate or surface. However, I find thatif the vacuum space be closed in all sides by a conducting medium, so that the conducting medium may prevent communication of heat through the vacuum by radiation, the heat will be conducted about the conducting me- 'dium andthe object of insulation thus defeated. Thereforein my preferred embodiment, I propose to employ, as seen in Fig.- l of the drawing, a plate l, seen in the form of a relatively small cylinder, made of metal or other suitable heat conducting material, and a plate 2, seen in the drawing in the form of a large concentric cylinder, made of' metal or other suitable heat conducting material, spaced at all points from the plate l, the endso of the plates l and 2 being held in their spaced apart condition by an annulus 3 of glass or other suitable non-conducting material, at each end. The air is exhausted from the spaces between the platesv as possible, while susceptible of resistingatmospheric pressure. Thus a structure, such as seen in Fig. l, might have the inner cylinder l filled with some substance, which might be injured by heat, and the, radiating heatabout the cylinder 2 will be deflected by said cylinder and conducted throughout the length thereof, but will not approach the cylinder l, because of the insulating media between the two cylinders. Of course, although I have disclosed the cylinder l open at its ends, the showing being merely for purposes of illustration, said cylinder would necessarily be closed with heat insulating Stoppers made for the manner of the device seen in Fig. l, if a substance were placed in the cylinder 1, for the purpose of preventing the approach of heat.

In Fig. 2, I have illustrated the same delvice as is shown in Fig. 1, but have carried out the conception further by lling the vacuum space between the cylinders 1 and 2, with a fibrous non-conducting heat substance 4, which is, for example, mineral Wool arranged with its fibers parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinders 1 and 2. The parallelism of the Said fibers with each other and with the said cylinders, tends to prevent radiation of heat through Vthe space occupied by said mineral wool, and to increase the non-conducting capacity of such Wool. The mineral wool t is packed as closely as possible, but the necessary exhaust therein, instead of beingiilled with air, as is usual, is deprived of the air, and therefore the mineral wool is packed in the vacuum.

In Fig. 3, I have illustrated a structure involving exactly the structure of the device seen in Fig. 1,m'odied slightly therefrom in contour. In Fig. 3, are seen, in section,4

two parallel plates 5-5 of some good heatJ conducting substance spaced apart by a nonconducting enamel 6, the space between said plates 5-5, being exhausted of its air.

Of course, it is understood that any dev sired application of the present improved,l

i hea-t insulator, may be made, and the plates inclosing the Vacuum space, and/the mediumA plates spaced apart, said plates being joined by a heat non-conducting glass-like enamel so as to inclose an air-tight space, said space being afterwards exhausted' so as to form a vacuum therein.

3. A heat insulator comprising fiat parallel metallic plates spaced apart and joined by a heat non-conducting glass-like enamel so as to inclose an air-tight space, said space being afterwards exhausted so as to form a vacuum.

4. A heat insulator comprising metallic plates spaced apart and a glass-like enamel having the same co-eflicient of expansion as said plates joining said plates, -a vacuum being formed v in the space formed by said plates and said enamel.

5. A heat insulator comprising metallic plates j oinedv lby a non-conducting glass-like enamel, the space inclosed by said plates and enamel being filled with a fibrous non-conductor of heat, said space being afterwards exhausted so as to form a vacuum with the exception of said fibrous non-conductor.

vtight space, said space being filled with mineral wool and afterwards exhausted so as to form a vacuum therein with the exception' of said filling.

8. A heat insulator comprising concentric metallic cylinders spaced apart, said cylinders being joined by a glass-like enamel so as to inclose an air-tight space, a fibrous heat non-conducting filling inserted in said space and a vacuum being formed in said space with the exception of said filling.

9. In a heat insulator, concentric cylinders joined by a heat non-conducting .enamel so as to in close an air-tight space, said Vspace heilig filled with mineral wool anda vacuum being formed in said space witll the exception of said filling.

10. In a heat insulator, concentric metallic cylinders spaced apart, said cylinders being connected by glass rings so as vt0 inclose an air-tight space, saidspace being afterwards exhausted so as to forma vacuum.

In testimony whereof' I affine` my signature in presence of two witnesses.. HUGO MOCK.

Witnesses: v IRA J AY Dn'rroN, NELLIE Lovn. 

